Wed.Nov 02, 2016

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Would You Subject Yourself to This?

Association eLearning

Mind-numbing boredom and hair-tearing frustration happen. They’re facts of life. But the thought of learning something new shouldn’t put people on autopilot. If the learner comes out of an educational offering wishing for that chunk of their life back something probably needs to be improved. This can be just as true of workflows and day-to-day processes as training.

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Strategy Sessions

Clark Quinn

In a previous post , I talked about a couple of instances where I worked with folks to let them ‘pick my brain’ Those were about learning design in particular, but I’ve also worked with folks on strategy. In these strategy sessions, things work a little differently. So, in a typical strategy session, I prepare by looking at what they’ve done beforehand: any existing strategy documents.

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Montana Tech Conference Is “Giant Ruse To Get People To Move To Bozeman”

Wisetail

The warning mentioned the numerous perils that Bozeman presented including its prime fly fishing, many friendly dogs, and abundant mountaintop selfie opportunities. The post Montana Tech Conference Is “Giant Ruse To Get People To Move To Bozeman” appeared first on Wisetail.

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Are You Just Paying Lip Service to 70:20:10?

Living in Learning

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m seeing the use of 70:20:10 being used as a design framework that promotes that we pack the “70” and the “20” into the “10”. Now before anyone blows a gasket, I will admit that this practice greatly enhances the “10”, no question about it. But here’s the thing…it’s still freaking Training.

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Experience the Benefit of Fully Trainable AI-Powered Learning Companions

As a training manager looking to amplify your team's results, Knowledge Avatars are the next level. Beyond mere chatbots, Knowledge Avatars are companions, interactive tutors ready to educate the urgent information your team needs to excel in their roles. Knowledge Avatars are versatile and adaptable personal coaches! They can be customized with your company's knowledge via a simple upload of your data.

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Converting a Text-heavy PDF Document into an Engaging E-learning Curriculum

CommLab India

Do you have stacks of documents in the PDF format, each running into hundreds of pages? Are you looking to convert them into good e-learning materials that can be accessed easily by your people? Well, you can convert each of the PDF documents into an e-learning curriculum, comprising several microlearning modules to train your people effectively. Let us see how.

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Why Moodle Customization to Reflect Your Company Branding

CommLab India

Why Moodle Customization to Reflect Your Company Branding. Your organization wants to showcase your brand identity in each and every detail to get the attention of employees and customers. It can be a logo or a colour theme, on your website, brochures, merchandise, or stationery. All these project the ‘look and feel’ of your company and build your visual identity.

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Two Free Multimedia Applications to Help Build Courses

Rapid eLearning

We all love free tools to help us save time and resources so that we are more efficient building our elearning courses. Here are two free multimedia applications that I use quite a bit. Color Picking with Color Cop. If you’re using Storyline that’s already easy to do because there’s a built in color picker. However, if you need to pick colors outside of your authoring tool, Color Cop is a good one to use.

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ILT To E-learning Conversion: Why It Works For Code of Conduct Training!

CommLab India

Do you think the Code of Conduct (CoC) training in your organization has taken a backseat? If yes, you can revamp and revive it. As known, compliance programs are full of legal jargon that your employees hardly relate to. But you can make them engaging by converting them to e-learning courses. These courses offer relevant training your employees can easily grasp and apply at their work.

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4 Questions to Ask When Building a Learning Strategy

CLO Magazine

Building a learning strategy is a key CLO mandate. Chief learning officers can add significant value to a learning strategy by aligning learning with the CEO’s agenda. To begin the process, CLOs and their teams can begin a dialogue with the CEO and his or her team to discuss the following four questions: How can we map learning to the CEO’s agenda? Ensure that learning programs map to the business wins defined in the CEO’s agenda for the next 3-5 years.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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SCORM for E-learning Courses: WHY?

CommLab India

E-learning is one of the preferred medium to train corporate employees because of its flexibility and other useful features. It can be leveraged to convey a wide variety of subjects. The aim of an eLearning program is to transfer knowledge and help learners solve problems using the skills and knowledge gained from it. But you need to make sure your eLearning courses are SCORM compliant; else, your development efforts will go vain.

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5 M-Learning Engagement Boosters

Growth Engineering

In a previous article , we saw how gamification can add a little competitive spice to your mobile learning initiative. Today, we’re going to inspire you with a few practical ideas. Many training managers might shy away from the idea of game-based learning solutions. They think that mobile gaming is complicated and involves a whole team of game designers.

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Dealing with Drama in the Workplace

Training Industry

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung Are you dealing with people who make your life miserable? It has been estimated that there are at least thirty toxic personality types. Depending on the crowd at your organization, you may think it’s more! The good news is that you can improve these personal dynamics and reduce your frustration.

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Yet Analytics Demonstrates New xAPI Data Visualization Capabilities at DevLearn by News Editor

LearningGuild

Yet Analytics leverages the Experience API specification to collect activity and human performance data from a wide range. of sources. At this year’s DevLearn, the data analytics startup will present new data structuring and real-time visualization. capabilities for xAPI.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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3 Brain science insights about adult learning

Matrix

A long long time ago people believed that the Sun orbits the Earth. Some time ago people believed that light can only happen during day time. Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. Geography and astronomy proved the people from long long time ago to be wrong.

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How Well Do Employees Know Basic Tools? by Pamela S. Hogle

LearningGuild

Employers might assume that employees who’ve been using MS Office tools for years know how to use them correctly. But. how many employees use blank lines instead of paragraph spacing—or copy and paste repeating elements in PowerPoint. because they don’t know how to use slide masters? The good news is, there is a simple, low-cost fix for this problem: eLearning.

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Driving Results at 7th Annual Higher Logic Super Forum

WBT Systems

WBT Systems is delighted to be a Platinum Sponsor of the 7th Annual Higher Logic Super Forum , taking place in Arlington, VA, November 14-15. The 2016 Higher Logic Super Forum is an exclusive two-day training, educational, and social event for Higher Logic clients, partners and community enthusiasts, with the theme: Results Driven. Measure. Manage. Move.

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LUC 2017: What Are Lightning Talks?

Trivantis

You may have heard the exciting news that the 2017 Lectora® User Conference is going to include lightning talks. You may also be wondering: “What are lightning talks?”. Lightning talks do not involve a talking lightning bolt, or Harry Potter, or any sort of extreme weather phenomenon. I’m sorry. You are at the wrong conference if you are hoping for that.

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11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption

Unlock the full potential of your educational initiatives with the 11 Tips to Drive Learning Content Consumption eBook. You’ll uncover: Why measure content consumption rather than (or in addition to) completion rates and member satisfaction? What are some proven tactics to create quality learner content and raise your content consumption rates? Discover the secrets from leading experts in the field, distilled into practical tips that promise to elevate the quality of your educational offerings,

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The many faces of eLearning #3: Onboarding with TalentLMS

TalentLMS

In the previous installments of this series of posts, we took a look at how TalentLMS fares with Compliance Training and Instructor-led Training. This time we’re having a look at using TalentLMS as an onboarding tool. Hop on! Employee Onboarding 101. So what’s this onboarding thing and how does it fit with eLearning? While onboarding is not about training in some particular skill, it is closely related to corporate training, as it involves giving new hires all the information they need to start

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Teaching vs. Reminding

ScreenSteps on eLearning

If you are building a knowledge base for customer support or for internal training, then it is important to keep in mind what you want the article to accomplish. In a perfect world you could write one article and use it for training, onboarding and support. And this is the approach that many people take. But it is a big mistake. When someone needs to be trained, their needs are very different from when she need to be reminded.

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VR and Accessiblity

eLearning Evangelist

I've been wondering about accessibility issues with virtual reality (VR), especially since this seems to be the year of VR. I've not seen any discussion or even hints at accessibility issues in VR, but clearly there are accessibility issues. A couple of years ago I had a discussion with a colleague about accessibility in computer gaming. This was in conjunction with an educational program that taught students to write programs for games.

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Putting Design in Instructional Design

ID Mentors

What is design in Instructional Design? Is it in the in the outline of a learning program? Is it in the approach you adopt to render the program? Is it in the questions that you create to optimally challenge the learner? Yes, to all three!! All these parameters will have a bearing on the learner’s overall experience. Why then do some Instructional Designers focus mostly on language when they create or review a Content or Program Outline, a Storyboard or the Assessments?

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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7 scary reasons to improve employee training

Wyzed

If you own or run a small business, employee training is one of those costs you probably try to avoid. It’s costly to backfill, it takes staff away from core duties, and you don’t always know whether it will have been time well spent until afterwards. Because of this, many employers either don’t understand (or live in denial of) the fact that employee training is extremely important.

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What Does UX Have to Do with eLearning? Everything!

eLearning Brothers

When I worked for a retail food and beverage company, everything was about the customer—especially what the customer would or wouldn’t like. As an example, to ensure that products met customer expectations, this company spent a good amount of time testing every single recipe before anything made it out the door. And, they followed up with customers to gather feedback once the product made it on the shelves.

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Image Studio 360: On the Cutting Edge of the Beauty Industry

Latitude Learning

Americans spend $75 billion on beauty services and products each year in the United States. That is a lot of haircuts, pedicures, botox treatments and eyebrow waxings. That is a lot of haircuts, pedicures, botox treatments and eyebrow waxings. The salon and hair care industry in the United States is growing rapidly at 14% per year, with a 31% job growth rate.

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Sell Your Course at Various Prices

LearnDash

“What should the price of my course be?” This is probably the single most asked question for anyone selling an online course, and with good reason. Pricing is difficult. You have to find the right balance between communicating the value of the course content and what the market is willing to pay. In many cases, your price-point will be determined by trial and error.

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10 Questions to Ask Before Buying an LMS

Find your perfect LMS. Choosing the right Learning Management System (LMS) is crucial for your business's success. With so many options available in the market, how do you ensure you make the best choice? This guide is your key to finding the ideal enterprise learning platform for your business. Compiled by industry experts, these questions will help to clarify your needs, prioritize your most essential features, and guide you through the evaluation process.

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4 Reasons to Choose Lectora for E-learning Course Development [Infographic]

CommLab India

If you are moving your corporate training program online, chances are you want to take your classroom training courses with you. But the problem is, it’s hard to convert text-heavy courses to engaging online courses, which can be accessed anytime, anywhere, to meet the needs of your global learners. Then, what is the solution? Well, you need to use Lectora Inspire – a reliable authoring tool.

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